compensation
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It was the bond market that made its feelings clear: “The market didn’t like what it heard, with the curve sharply steepening and breakeven inflation compensation rising as the chair spoke.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026
The US acting attorney general said Sunday he had reached an agreement with lawmakers and issued an order officially scrapping a $1.8-billion compensation fund that has led to a standoff over his Senate confirmation.
From Barron's ● Aug. 3, 2026
The pool of lawyers pursuing workers’ compensation cases is shrinking in some states.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
The cost of dealing with the disease is expected to exceed £70m this year, the bulk of it in compensation to farmers.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026
As we have seen, the projected cost of compensation was a potent argument against gradual emancipation, and the argument has been echoed in most scholarly treatments of the topic ever since.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
But all the compensations, all the progress anyway.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 26, 2025
Edinburgh Employment Tribunal ruled that PC Jones should be awarded compensations of £24,800 and PC Tunnock should receive £23,824.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2025
Naqvi said the compensations would be completed within the next 48 hours and said that authorities have begun to repair the churches.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 21, 2023
Ross Stores shares fell marginally in extended trading as it forecast second-quarter profit below estimates, hit by higher incentive compensations and wages.
From Reuters ● May 18, 2023
It was well for him, with his chivalry and mysticism and all the compensations of the male world, to make the grand renunciation.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
Vocabulary lists containing compensation
The Bill of Rights
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"The Monkey's Paw" by W. W. Jacobs
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"The Monkey's Paw," Vocabulary from the short story
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